2025 tech predictions: embrace chaos
AI agents! Political shenanigans! Canadian tech acquisitions! Big Tech breakups!
Alison Nankivell departs MaRS for Export Development Canada
Nankivell’s tenure on MaRS lasts only nine months, slightly longer than the executive search to hire her.
The biggest Canadian tech stories of 2024
Plus: Check your SR&ED history for a potential post-holiday windfall.
The biggest tech stories of 2024
Plus: Annual grades for Wealthsimple, Shopify, Cohere, and more.
Liberals’ Fall Economic Statement contains more promises to Canadian tech
Plus: Geoffrey Hinton receives his Nobel Prize, delivers a warning.
Foreign and domestic AI with Tenstorrent and Cohere
Plus: Canada Post strike didn’t slow Shopify’s BFCM weekend.
Lessons in leadership, hiring, and AI from SAAS NORTH 2024
Also discussed: how to make leather from mushrooms. SAAS NORTH 2024 was crazy.
The DOJ wants to take Google Chrome away, Rob Kenedi wants to decelerate tech
After a decade of quiet dominance, the browser space is suddenly filled with uncertainty.
Charles Mandel always filed on time
BetaKit remembers beloved senior writer on anniversary of his passing.
We need to talk about startup failure
Plus: Alberta Innovates the second provincial innovation to face a cyberattack this year.
The story of Sampler (live at SAAS NORTH 2024)
“I’m using failure with intent today, because I don’t want to be ashamed of saying failure.”
One chart that will make you feel good about Canadian tech
Plus: Neo’s backers, Wealthsimple’s value, and Shopify’s concerns.
The state of Canadian software in 2024
Inovia’s Chris Arsenault came to SAAS NORTH armed with data and perspective.
Meanwhile, in Canada
Plus: WonderFi CEO Dean Skurka unharmed after kidnapping incident.
Addressing Canada’s speed of financial innovation
Koho, Borrowell, Manzil—plus the Department of Finance—talk product velocity, risks & opportunity.